Publications / 1992 Proceedings of the 9th ISARC, Tokyo, Japan
The accumulation of the repair and maintenance requirement in Great Britains tall housing stock has become a matter of great concern. For limited resources to be wisely allocated to this, dependable priorities based on reliable building inspection processes must be achieved. The potential role of automation has been clearly established on this. However, from survey results on current practice, it is apparent that viable automated inspection facilities (AIFs) must be able to perform a number of different inspection tasks. Furthermore, for widespread applicability, support vehicles must provide access for a range of building surface geometries. The provision of benchmarks, these formalised combinations of tasks and geometries, is an attempt to define relevant goals for worthwhile AIF research and development.